skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're a Mac user, you can try BetterTouchTool (http://www.boastr.de/). It lets you map trackpad gestures to keyboard shortcuts, system-wide.
This article needs to differentiate between vapid criticism and constructive criticism. Constructive criticism always provides good, meaningful advice for how to fix potential issues, is not unnecessarily harsh, and is willing to work with opposing criticism. People disagreeing about how to fix something can be just as bad as disagreeing on whether its broken in the first place. Constructive criticism is healthy and does not usually destroy anyone's self-worth, unless they simply can't take criticism at all in which case they will never improve.
Also, I get rather preachy with my brothers about how I believe they should proceed with their lives... And they listen, but it's a bit hard to change how people see the world.
Ah, yes. I'm not certain why the original version did that but when I changed it to same size as others, 10 card 'stuck out' like a sore thumb. I'm thinking about either switching to a narrower version of Helvetica like real poker cards do.

Please do try your own variations and make suggestions. Thx.
I think the true source of simplicity goes way further back than Dennis Ritchie. Maybe look more in the arts that CS for the origins of minimalism and simplicity....
Hey mate, I took your advice and made the editor the main page with a call to action linking to "Learn More". This puts the editor at the forefront. Thanks for your feedback; it's very insightful!
Reality revealed: The ultimate fabric of the universe (video)
Unlike what the author has experienced, I haven't seen any universal hatred for typescript. Most opinions have been balanced and recognize it is the first iteration of the language. Especially from people who actually work with Javascript.

Interestingly, the .Net/MS community seems to be far less open to typescript. Perhaps that is where the author is coming from.
Facebook just put a video on their homepage
It does take two, you know.

I'll make one final point and then let it go. If you want the last word, it's all yours.

Two mentions in any medium is definitely not the standard for notability on wikipedia. Read the very page you linked for confirmation of that, there's quite a bit more about the standard there.
Isn't 'sudo vi' already game over?

:sp /bin/vi

...

:wq
I'm using magic mouse with magicprefs - and the best hot gesture for me that seems to work everytime is three finger swipe down, which I use for taking screenshots.
Is Apple Abandoning the Pro Video Market?
Difference is people who managed the program and who paid for it.

Early rocket programs were military programs, rockets make excellent weapons, they can reach around the world and touch someone in less than 90 minutes. The military paid for, and managed, programs for putting payloads into orbit. Of course the military doesn't have a rocket factory, so it hires contractors to build rockets to its specifications, and to research questions the military wants answers too, Etc. NASA worked with the same contractors as part of the civilian space program to give scientists access to space.

In the military programs, function was important, cost was not. That is because the military has "cost plus" contracting, they say "we need a rocket that does X" and the contractor builds it and charges the cost of building it plus the agreed upon 'profit' and the military pays it. There is no incentive to be economical and no incentive to change.

SpaceX on the other hand invested its own money in building its rockets (that's the 'private' part) and they are selling services on these rockets at a price that makes them a profit on their investment (that is the 'commercial' part). They have been re-using research done by NASA and the defense contractors in their work so they have an advantage over earlier efforts in terms of costs. That said, by approaching it as a business rather than a government contract they have removed a huge amount of cost out of the process.

Because of the process, SpaceX isn't necessarily constrained by the restrictions a nation-state might put on them (although in reality if they tried to sell launch services to say Iran the US would prevent that) They also have the right to re-use their technology for their own enterprise so if Bigelowe Aerospace needs someone to launch their space hotels, SpaceX can offer that service without either Bigelow or SpaceX needing 'permission' from the military.

The amazing bit here is that nation-state space programs were possible because nobody expected to 'make' money, they just took tax payer money and burned it at a high rate :-). In this case SpaceX is looking to recoup their development costs and then some. Not being under the whims of a nation-state budgeting authority (like the US Congress) allows them to make progress quickly.
I find it fascinating that Kickstarter considered this a "Home Improvement" product.

Its not an actual lock and doesn't become part of the home permanently. This is kind of like saying that one of those desktop USB dart shooters is a weapon, or one of those little "iPhone-bots" is a surveillance device. It seems like the perfect, hackable "geek device" that Kickstarter was made to fund.

I wonder if underneath the Kickstarter guys were afraid that it a) would never get funded, or b) you couldn't deliver.

Oh well, I guess it was their $75,000 to lose. A great big congratulations to you guys. Way to take a setback and spin it into epic win. Best of luck.
Actually, the author explicitly mentioned flattery.
Tokens App
This is a new app that is going to be launched soon. You can leave geolocalized messages right where you are standing...and nowhere else.
I just finished Carl Jung's The Undiscovered Self whilst comparing and contrasting his thoughts on spirituality to Nietzsche's scathing criticism of christianity's moral code leading to a slave mentality. Oh, and I hit level 60 on my Monk on Wow.

Stereotypes are fun, aren't they?
Seth Godin - The curse of incremental improvement [and MVP]
The likely difference is probably not enthusiasm, but the fact that the Curiosity folks were just along for the ride. Everything happening had already happened minutes ago.
We might be mincing words here. But, I think we are agreeing on the basic idea. In my article, I am attempting to say "don't be mean, be nice, and provide positive encouragement, if you disagree, be objective and gentle." I think you are saying the same thing as well, but we are getting hung up on the word "criticism." This is of course my fault, because I was the one who introduced it into the original post.

One powerful set of words I have found when I disagree with someone's viewpoint or find what I perceive to be a weakness in their work is to say.

"Hmm, I like what you said X and Y, but I keep feeling like we might be able to figure out a better way to do Z. What do you think?"

Acknowledging what was good and attributing it to the person, but suggesting an improvement to what was less than good and taking partial ownership for the solution.
A learning disability tends to be defined by IQ (IQ less than 75 or so), rather than anything else.

Thus, someone with a chromosomal disorder, or someone who was deprived of oxygen during birth, or someone who is just stupid because of genetics all have learning disabilities. They just have different forms of learning disability.
Turn around time. You can turn around a self-landing ignition stage much faster than something you have to turn around after a water landing.
I agree with you: Ritchie's contributions, because they're at the core of so many things we use (including iOS and OSX) are more influential than Jobs' contributions (which are pretty darn influential).

However, please re-read the headline you've got an issue with: "How Steve Jobs' Love of Simplicity Fueled A Design Revolution."

Does the article claim that Jobs' creations were the simplest ever? Or that his simplicity trumped that of Ritchie? No.

Also note that the article is clearly talking about a design revolution. Did Ritchie spark a design revolution? No.

(Well, he did, in operating system design. But that's really not the sense of the word "design" the article is using...)

So I don't understand what your problem is, other than the fact that you don't like Jobs' contributions a great deal. The claims made by the article are utterly orthogonal to the importance of Ritchie's work!
Ever since App.net raised 500k using the same model, I believe that there is a need for someone to build a "Crowdfunding as a Service" app.

Imagine if I too wanted to make a crowdfunding campaign that was completely independent of kickstarter, indiegogo, or any other platform. I would have to build all this functionality on top of Amazon that would take credit cards, store them, charge them when a threshold has been met, and then ship my product out to those people who funded me when manufacturing has been completed.

I believe that if a company were to automate all of this and allow anybody to have their own platform independent crowdfunding campaign on their site, just like PayPal allowed anybody to have their own e-commerce site, they could truly rival the market share of Kickstarter.

Such a model could have tremendous benefits over the traditional kickstarter platform routine we see many crowdfunding sites copy today.
Kickstarter certainly did open the door to these styles of private hardware-funding campaigns. And given how successful private Kickstarter-esque launches can be (App.net, Lockitron), I can't see myself trying Kickstarter -- I would go the private route first. From the article:

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A brief e-mail exchange ensued, culminating with a firm “No” – stating that Lockitron fell into the “home improvement” category of prohibited projects.
"""

Maybe it is HN bias, but all past popular Kickstarter launches seem to be products that would now be prohibited. I think Kickstarter is writing their own fate by not allowing these things. All the new popular launches are going to go off-site.

There are probably legal implications (and other problems) that come with being a "store" and Kickstarter does clearly not want that. But I can't envision the future of Kickstarter unless they come up with a solution to the store problem (and not by outright banning store-like products).
I think it's entirely reasonable that a consumer-centric tech visionary cut down in the prime of his career would get more attention than the death of a programmer-centric tech visionary whose major work occurred in the 60s and 70s.
I've been using Terminus for years. I've tried several times to get into "pretty" anti-aliased fonts, but nothing beats hard, sharp edges for a long day of programming. I specifically use Terminus with 16 pxlsize on a 15.6" 1920x1080 screen and find that delightful.

Coding with dark text on a white background is much easier on the eyes, too, unless you have a screen that won't let you turn down the brightness.

Pro tip: hold up a white sheet of paper in your well-lit work environment. Adjust your screen brightness to match the brightness of the piece of paper. Your screen should not be brighter than your work environment.

Super pro tip: work outside. Get a professional laptop with a matte screen, one of those lightweight "antigravity" chairs, and find a nice place to work outdoors. A 12x24" piece of wood makes a good lap desk if you need to use a mouse and fits well over the armrests of all of the outdoor chairs I have worked in.
Yes, every size photo should have size-specific sharpening. Large or Small. Doesn't matter, if you are expecting people to look at it ~seriously.
It seems to me that more and more companies will just run their own "kickstarted" campaign without Kickstarter like the Lockitron guys. The companies will also no longer be at Kickstarter's mercy to shut down their campaign when they feel like, and don't have to pay the commission. Now it's so easy to setup credit card payment with Square and put up your own"Kickstarter" page.
From the article:

> JavaScript will no longer be the bottleneck. At this point the main cost is turning network data into JavaScript objects. This cost is equal for JavaScript libraries, as well as for C++ addons making V8 calls. Also, when a single client can process 5000 MBit/s utilizing a single CPU, your MySQL server has long exploded

Remember these are Node drivers, so everything has to end up becoming a JS object.
Awesome!

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Thanks man
I played for about two and a half years fighting in the big war leading up to that event. I'd say it was about 10% having really exciting and fun things happen, 60% plotting how to have future fun things with other people, and 30% feeling like a second job.

Thing is that the 60% is actually pretty fun too if you find people you like to hang around with and if you like thinking about how to optimize stuff and achieve goals. So all-in-all I enjoyed it a lot. But I don't recommend it unless you figure out who those people will be before you start.
Subtitles - Not all the world is sleeping, now we are currently sitting here in an office. Many of us have the webcast up on their screens, but we either don't have headphones or don't have the sound on.

A timeline of what is supposed to happen - Since we had no sound we were left wondering what was happening, and when the next event should be. It would be nice to have something like:

T-30 - XXX
T-5 - YYY
T-0 - Launch
T+2 - ZZZ
Hah, so you are in Brisbane - how about that. Our co-founder/developer is really good, but somehow managed to graduate with out any network. If you know anyone looking for good pay in a fun work environment, maybe let me know! Good luck with the move :)
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Seems like the challenge there is that you're setting yourself up for the liabilities without the control.

If anyone can use your service, you're going to have fraudsters left and right. If you have to vet them before they can use it, aren't you just another version of kickstarter?
It's a lot like the difference between contracting to have a piece of software built, and buying a copy of a piece of software that's already built. You get a lot of control with the former, but also a lot of cost, and the result often doesn't generalize well.

Previous systems had heavy input for specs and design from NASA. With this, NASA basically says, "X pounds for Y dollars to ISS" and SpaceX is figuring out all the details.
This question always comes up.

It's about turnaround time and precision. Parachutes are messy. They use pyrotechnics to deploy, they have to be packed very carefully and precisely, etc. They also don't lend themselves to precision landings well. They're fine for landing in an enormous landing zone in the ocean or in some unpopulated, featureless desert, but otherwise they're not so good for targeted landings.

Now, compare this to propulsive landings. You "waste" a lot more fuel and cut into the payload of your vehicle but on the other hand you get to streamline the turnaround process to just a matter of refueling and inspection, which you would do regardless of the landing mode. More so, by landing the vehicle in a designated spot you dramatically lower the cost and time necessary to put the vehicle back into service. You don't have to drive out to the desert and retrieve the vehicle (which could take a day at least) you just pick the thing up with a crane and you move it a few hundred meters to the hangar / processing facility.
> Now let me guess. You don't believe in evolution,

Wrong.

> Evolution matters to geology because specific fossils are often used as a cross-reference for the age of specific rocks.

Evolution doesn't tell you how old a fossil is. Evolution says that there's a path, but doesn't say how long each step took.

> There are also applications of fossils to astronomy, for instance fossil corals have been used to verify how the number of days in a year have changed over time.

You're confusing evolution with fossils.

Slaver ant behavior isn't dependent on evolution. (Also, everyone believes in selective breeding. Evolution is more.)
That's incorrect. You can embed an interpreter and interpreted code in an iOS app and many do. You just can't download new interpreted code after the application has been installed. You can't download new binary code, either.

See http://daringfireball.net/2010/09/app_store_guidelines.
SportsLab Inc. is Changing Football Playbooks
Maybe it is HN bias, but all past popular Kickstarter launches seem to be products that would now be prohibited. I think Kickstarter is writing their own fate by not allowing these things. All the new popular launches are going to go off-site.

Watching Kickstarter and the various multi-million dollar projects, the liability question was getting more and more important. And even when you've tried to be very up front where the liability is, that doesn't stop angry people from suing you. And that, is not a fun way to live.

So Kickstarter gets more and more explicit in their liability language and rules and that shuts down folks who might otherwise have participated. So I don't know if its 'fate' so much as a hard way to do a business.
API Strategy and Practice Conference: Including PW Reader Discount
I didn't take away from the article a denouncement of all criticism. Perhaps I read into it what I believe, or was more charitable/liberal in interpreting/extrapolating the intended meaning from the clumsy wording.

Either way, my take away was that honest feedback and delivery/tone are orthogonal. You can be harsh in your feedback/criticism/expression-of-opinion, or you can do so in a way that disarms the other and is trust-building. The former is more likely to be ignored or misinterpreted, the latter is more likely to be understood. (The article presupposes this, and I agree. And one person's ability to take harsh criticism well does not translate to people receiving harsh criticism from that person also having the ability to take it well.)

If and only if you cannot find a way to convey your feedback in a trust-building way, the author asserts that your will be counter-productive in helping the other. Thus there are practical benefits to remaining silent, including: save your time/energy, not risk burning a bridge, not pointlessly inflict emotional harm (ok, the last one is not so practical as it is considerate).

But that's a very specific and unlikely circumstance, and the author explains in the article many simple techniques not to find yourself in such a circumstance.
Do you think that moving playbooks online/mobile will help athletes/coaches with their game?
Just remember, scientific surveys are themselves types of "blessed" anecdotal evidence.

But you're correct. Since getting on this thread, I've been thinking of developing an empirical model to back up my statements. I have a gut understanding from my observations and discussions of what some of the factors would be. Could be interesting. I'll have to see if I've time to do so.
I think this is pretty awesome. Suggestion: the face cards need to be redone in SVG or something scalable.
Someone suggested this below. Maybe they should pivot (slightly, more like adding a new feature) and offer a Kickstarter-as-a-service SDK to products that would fall outside their liability-acceptance zone. That way they can still take their cut and offer a valuable service to folks who want to offer funding campaigns.

EDIT: For clarity, the idea is Kickstarter provides some sort of white-labelled page to show a counter and collect/skim funds. I have to imagine liability falls back to the originating company at that point.
It's basically a savings in recovery and turnaround time & expense. Sea recovery is logistically costly and difficult, plus the vehicle must be completely rebuilt and refurbished once it's back in the hanger. A saltwater bath and the stresses of a water touchdown are not easy on equipment.

While a controlled, retrorocket touchdown is obviously s huge engineering challenge and greatly complexifies the vehicle and increases its launch weight, the possible cost savings apparently make it a desirable goal.

Also, I believe SpaceX hopes to perfect the technology as part of their strategy to be make their tickets to Mars "round trip" :)
His problems started earlier, I think. A red flag came up when I saw that he ticketed the fire chief (and got fired for his trouble). Then later he kept escalating some issue above his superiors, despite being warned that his career was on the line. The guy just doesn't know his place.
Thanks! There were a number of projects involving replacement power outlets and light switches that were accepted without question, so I believe that we were not only tangled in their new policies, but also that they started enforcing their prohibited categories more closely.
The easiest way in is to start as an intern -- http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/students/tech/internships...
Web development with Fortran. Shudder. (String handling is abysmal in Fortran so I wouldn't wish that to my worst enemy).

No, but my parent was talking about deep code optimizations being almost exclusively being done in C. I'd say HPC is a significant market for code optimization, so I wanted to point out that Fortran is kind of the industry standard there.
Why do you only care about his recent predictions? What's unconvincing about the track record of the rest of his career?
I was referring to the need for brand power, not the store specifically. Android has indeed developed brand power, but Microsoft's situation and needs are different from Android and I think a store is an absolute must. Android has successfully created a story that people like about power and choice in your pocket, and good on Google and the OEMs for that. But Microsoft is a much, much bigger entity than Android, and they have a proportionally grander and more ambitious vision (or need to have such a vision or are trying to develop such a vision) about technology, a vision they want to bring to people through a much more complex and heavily integrated suite of technology and services. And one of the best ways to do this is through a polished, exciting store experience (not sure if Microsoft is quite managing that, but hopefully the situation should improve.)

Microsoft's imperative is to distill its sprawling empire into something sleek and powerful. Android's imperative, should it choose to accept it, is to expand on its successful foundation intelligently without diluting or confusing the story it tells. Totally opposite problems IMO.
I can vouch for IE being far better than Netscape.
everything in my /usr/local is owned by my user. isn't this typical in the case of a dev machine?
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